helene@urbed.coop said the following on 28/10/2007 11:49:
> On Sep 14, 6:23 pm, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers-
> supermarine.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone found a truffle in their back garden?
>> My back garden in Cowley, Oxford is not so much a garden as more a
>> wildlife haven/orchard with the soil where I dug the thing up (under the
>> shade of hazel nut trees), not touched or chemically treated in any way
>> in over twenty years.
> (snip)
>> I can't believe that you'd find them in people's back gardens, let alone
>> in Cowley in Oxford!
> Off course you can find truffles in England - and the fact that your
> garden has been untouched by chemicals and disturbances in some parts
> for over 20 years is beneficial to the truffles. Finds have been
> recorded as far as Darlington and south of Oxford is a prime place to
> find them. Check this link below and contact them. I'm from Perigueux
> in the Dordogne and grew up on the stuff. I've found hundreds as a kid
> and never thought they were 'rare'.
People who grow up near gold mines probably also don't think that gold
is particularly rare or special either! :-)
> It's just a matter of looking and
> also a matter of unspoilt areas. It has nothing to do with bare root
> trees from Italy but the perfect environment for myccrhorizals to grow
> on undisturbed dead matters and form a relationship with roots from,
> usually, oak trees.
It's a back garden which was mainly short grass and privet hedge prior
to that (since the 30s) and there no trees for many hundreds of feet.
The truffles seemed to grow in a 4ft diameter arc around the one Cobnut.
This tree came from a specialist nursery where they in turn get their
trees from larger suppliers (not as a bare root of course) and someone
suggested that these trees may have come from Italian suppliers. That's
how the thread came to that possibility.
As much of the area owned by Oxford City Council is built upon and
changing as families come and go, the chance of finding them becomes
less and less.
> I've also found ceps near places we found
> truffles. This summer I've found a cep growing at the foot of a young
> oak tree, at the centre of coiled hose pipe! That was very unusual :o)
>
> http://www.truffle-uk.co.uk/TO_GI.php
Thank you. I've actually been there several times and by the look of
the average price of the white truffle I'd guess that it is not so
common as the black.
Richard Brooks wrote:
> Thank you. I've actually been there several times and by the look of
> the average price of the white truffle I'd guess that it is not so
> common as the black.
Indeed. But close to privets?!! How surprising!! The Cobnut could
indeed be the answer. If I was you I'll enjoy them - make an omelet
with it with a lovely Margaux ;o)
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> supermarine.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone found a truffle in their back garden?
>> My back garden in Cowley, Oxford is not so much a garden as more a
>> wildlife haven/orchard with the soil where I dug the thing up (under the
>> shade of hazel nut trees), not touched or chemically treated in any way
>> in over twenty years.
> (snip)
>> I can't believe that you'd find them in people's back gardens, let alone
>> in Cowley in Oxford!
> Off course you can find truffles in England - and the fact that your
> garden has been untouched by chemicals and disturbances in some parts
> for over 20 years is beneficial to the truffles. Finds have been
> recorded as far as Darlington and south of Oxford is a prime place to
> find them. Check this link below and contact them. I'm from Perigueux
> in the Dordogne and grew up on the stuff. I've found hundreds as a kid
> and never thought they were 'rare'.